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The sway of the sirens.


But there is one point of difference between
men and women which ought not quite to pass
over, and yet shall not dilate upon, for believe
no woman is capable OF fairly judging 1t. Mer-
clfuly for the world, very few women can in the
least understand that side OF mems nature in
which the senses predominant over or are psrpet-
ually fighting with the soul, so that an originally
noble human being can sink down to the level
OF Calypso's swine. / question il even ordi-
the state OF mind which results in a mans max
ing some wretched mesalIance or sinking under
the unlawful thraldom of Cleopatra, Aspa-
STA Phryne. Such things are, but most
of us women can hardly comprehend them We
may, under such ordinary self-delusion. fall in
love with bad man and cling TO him from duty
or tenderness long after love has departed but
we seldom plunge man does. open-eyed,
into the nets spread by a bad woman, aud vet
cannot help himself. The story of Samson
and Delilah. repeated age after age among men,
is not often told of women.
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BEATS MURPHY'S PLAN.
Woman's Temperance Scheme-Success
Certain If Her Rerources Holds Out.

Pittsburg Chronicle
The husband of South-side woman has been
protracted drunk for week or more. and
she has adopted a line of tactics which, if the
financial string does not run out, will succeed
in curing his habit She said
''Bill has not drawn sober breath for over a
week. Last Thursday night l kept supper
waiting for him till after s o'clock He did not
put in an appearance and told my son to go
out and see If he could find him. The boy re-
turned in few minutes and said his father was
III neighborin saloon drinking beer. Without
saying anything drew five-dollar bill from
my pocket and told the boy to take it to his
father He did so, and my husband did not put
in an appearance at home until almost daylight
Friday morning.
bill did not come home for supper last night.
/ knew where TO find him. but, instead of send
ing money, l went to the saloon. He was sitting
at table, and had just finished glass of beer.
] walked towards him and handed him another
would be enough. He replied that he thought
he could make it do. / then left the saloon.
This morning when / aroused him for break
fast asked him if he had had sufficient money
to see him through last night. He said he had
enough but had spent every cent. / told him
cided to give him twenty-five dollars and he
could have a good time. Now my object is to
either kill or will either make him
Disguised with getting drunk will let him
fill himself up to such extent that it will kill
him. There is use of him going little
keeps him in stupid condition all the time.
OF course l want to my husband. but if I
cannot accomplish that object, 1 want him to
get the full benefit of the effects Of alcohol"
With this last utterance the woman ended
the conversation. On her face was depicted
grim determination and she bore the appear
ance of one who had cast the die and will
ing to abide the consequence.
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4 Woman's Place.

Ella heeler WILCOX.
According to my creed. womans place is
wherever circumstances beyond her control
have situated her.
The rule is, that the women who pursue the
hard path of a public career, which deprives
them OF aquiet domestic life. women who
have been driven into it by stern necessity.
To be queen of happy home, loved and APP
preciated by kind husband and little children,
to live only for their appreciation and respect.
surely this is the grandest and truest sphere pos
sible for woman. 1t is the only genuine happi-
ness which earth affords, all else is mere imita-
ton. In no reform can a woman do a work so
beneficial to mankind as increasing the number
of happy homes in the land.
But this work is not given every woman to do.
Good husbands, who will respect, appreciate
and support their wives and daughters, do not
stand on every threshold ready to lead all
into this earthly paradise. And there
fore it is every woman's duty to be prepared to
meet the world single-handed.
If 1 were blessed with daughter, L should
teach her some method of self-support as relig-
iously as 1 should teach her to love God. But
my daily prayer would be that she might never
go forth from the shelter of the parental roof
save the queen of good husbands home.
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The Farmhouse Bathroom.
Detroit Tribune.


For some mysterious and unexplained reasons
not one farm house in a thousand is built with
any reference to bathing conveniences. If the
farmer does not always answer his wife's meek
and tiInid request for u bathroom in the new
house in the manner of the granger who replied
with. "Well, if you amt jst gittin' too toney
for any USE" and Immediately put his foot down
upon any ''sich new-fangled nonsense" the
usual cry-if the thing is thought of at all--is
1--WE can't afford it." Why is it that farmers
can afford almost anything under the sun but
comforts9 The bath room is not only a comfort
but real necessity. In the summer time the
nearest lake river but how do they manage
when there is nothing larger than a brook in
the vicinity. and what of the feminine element
in the family who don't know how to swim, and
what do they all do in cold weather when outdoor
bathing S not practicable2 at rare intervals
one of the family takes possession of the Kitchen
for the sleeping-rooms and all the rest of the
household are rarely well warmed, to keep in a
state of quarantine while the sponge and a bowl
of water are put into requisition. This is apt to
inconvenience so many others, and the time has
to be so carefully considered when to cause the
least annoyance, that even bath of such limited
resources as this must perforce be luxury not
often INDUCED in.
If the bathroom with modern fittings of steam
pipes, hot and cold water and tiled floor,
not be afforded, most likely 1t cannot.
small bedroom or closet should be taken for
this purpose. If there is no room for a stove
cut holes in the PARTITION and let pipe from
some other stove pass through it If this can
not be done oil stove will heat very small
room sufficiently, except in the severest wealth
er, and the stove is inexpensive and oil is cheap.
If portable tin bath-tub is not to be had,
large wash-tub is better than nothing. Keep
plenty of towels and a bottle of ammonia and
good CASTLE soap in the ROOM Each individual
bring his sponge from his own apartment
There is nearly always hot water enough on the
kitchen stove for the small requirements of such
tub and pail should be set aside in the bath
room for this purDOSe.
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let this one go. even if it was for less than she
worth From the increase all my bonds have
OF course could tell you many ups and
downs. for it was not always smooth sailing
back there those early days, as / grew
up from childhood, but I need not enlarge
upon this At length 1 came to San Jose
to school. put in three or four years, and in ad-
dition travelled considerably III America. seeing
all the large cites and many OF the great natural
curiosities. But when got back to Idaho was
so lonesome didn't know what to do. fused
To say to my mother then the only man cared
anything about was the man in the 1
got over being SO lonesome, though, in a little
time, and now l am already homesick to get
back. AS said, the stock business is very fas-
cinatine. and horses very profitable. much
more than cattle, A three or four-y ear-old
steer. for instance. is worth but $40. while
horse of the same age is worth $65 or 500, any
how. Another thing horses much more
easily raised, aud do not require half the care.
They paw away the snow and get at the grass
much better than cattle. Last year the average
loss of cattle in Idaho 60 per cent Some
owners lost 100 per cent, all they had.
Although our home and many of our carols and
southeast of Boise City and TWEEN ty-two south of
Mountain House, the station on the Oregon
short line, our range is seventy-fve miles away.
It is what is known as II range, and it is there
that many cattle and horse owners gather
twice year to sort out and brand. I go out
there every year and look on and see how the
stock is coming in ride great deal, but
don't take part in the roundup. As many
forty men oftentimes out roundingup and
cutting out stock there during the season. and
things are very lively. shoot good deal-that
is, l am good shot; but don't often go hunt
ing, though there is lots of fine game"
Miss wilkins discussed, in entertaining
way Miss Morgan, the eminent lady writer
blooded cattle and horses, whose letters in
Eastern journals have attracted attention. Miss
Wilkins said she knew reason why the judg-
ment of women should not be good that of
men If they gave the subject attention. Miss
wilkins leaves tomorrow for San jose. GEM
PAW with her brother. to visit her uncle, Judge
B. P. Rankin, and family. She will remain
there a week. when she will again return to her
pretty home on the Bruneau.
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ar THE JAPANESE BATHS.
What Carter Harrison Saw and What He
Thinks About 1t.

IT,
Letter in Chicsg Mail.
lunch of delicious salmon trout on piazza
of polished floors jutting the alter pre-
pared US for a further walk of eight miles, now
along the tumbling stream then in thickets of
towering shrubs, over as beautiful a prairie of
about s, 600 acres as ever cav along the shores
of two other lakes Of say thirty and 300 acres
extent, at a height of 8. 500 feet, brought us to
pilgrim tourists visit Nike each year, and after
paying their devotions in the temples climb to
this spot to wash out any further impurities of
the body and soul. Men and women battle pro-
miscuously, without shame aud without
any of immodesty. If 1 be
rectly informed, the Japanese have no
fruit ever tempted their forefather to
entail sin and death upon them. In praying
they never asked to have sin forgiven. They
pray for pure heart and a spotless SOUL for
blessings of a temporal character TO be showered
upon them and theirs. A clean body, in their
estimation. conduces to a clean character They
take their hot baths nightly, and when able to
do so crowd the natural hot baths in which the
country greatly abounds. They are pronounced
immoral because they battle and women
together. But they certainly have no feeling
that there is any immortality in it. We had
striking illustration of this at the thermal bath
of Arima. a few miles back of Kobe We there
were In the high priced TANK sen each Be-
yond screen was a sen tank, about eight feet
square. Around it thirteen men
the edges like frogs to a floating branch.
In the half tank, much larger.
dozens-laborers and coolies. Presently man
and woman passed US. and. finding the next tank
rather full, slid into tank They were man
and wife. They thought US Japs. and were dis
posed to be talkative. but they found
foreigners the woman became confused,
and blushed She knew we. being of different
civilization, might regard her immodest. But
going into the bath with her husband showed
that they did not regard it as improper to enter
it with strangers and other men. 1t is their
custom, and ia not much stranger than that
saw in Asia Minor where met dozen
more women fordipg nearly waist
deep They did not wet their garments, but
,.pnld have considered themselves dIsgraced lad
their faces. After all, the more see
and learn the fully concede the truth of
Englands motto-''Hon soft qui NAL pense."
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Farm ImDleinents.

Correspondence Country Gentleman.
The point wish chiefly to discuss is the
struction OF the wheelbarrow. If / observe COR
rectly, wheelbarrows are usually built heavier
than is necessary sometimes much heavier.
Like many of the smaller farm Implements too
much timber is put in, and sometimes the iron
work is too heavy. The weight of this supera-
bundance of stock represents the loss of just as
much labor as it takes to handle it over
and over during the day. The muscle that
it wearies is thrown away. 1t seems a small
matter to handle a few pounds extra over once.
But let it be repeated all day, and it becomes a
matter worth looking after The thills of a
wheelbarrow generally heavier than there is
need of, as are also the wheel the Stats for
the flooring, and the legs. All these things
should be strong. but if good timber is used
they can be made smaller than most people
think and be strong enough. And here let me
say that nothing but the best of stock should be
put into wheelbarrow in order that we may
secure both lightness of draft and Inability.
The felly of the wheel will best serve its purpose
if it be quite WIDE say two inches. and quite
thin, say three-quarter inch The spokes
should be wide and thin and set in a hub that
is not more than two and three-quarters inches
in diameter at its biggest place.
The thills should be about 4x2 inches at the
biggest place and worked down considerably
from this at the handles. The stats for flooring
need not be more than three-quarters of an
inch in thickness. and only two inches wide.
The flooring should be not more than five-eighths
of an inch thick and of bass stock, put SO it
may be easily renewed.
These few general directions if well followed
will be found serviceable in giving a wheel
barrow that will not only do US better service
but look much better than the ordinary clumsy
affair found on the farm. After using wheel
barrow made according to my figures and then
going back to a clunsier affair, you will not
think am making mountains of mole-hills in
thus expatiating on so seemingly. small a mat
ter And this talk may properly be applied to
all farm implements. Our hoes, and forks and
shovels are often made heavier than is neces-
sary, fact that needs to be made prominent be-
fore the manufacturers of these important adj
iunctS of the farm.
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THE IDAHO HORSE QUEEN.
The Romantic Story of the Rapid Rise OF
kittie wilkins.

San Francisco Saminer.
Miss Kirtie C. Wilkins, the horse queen of
Idaho. is at the Palace Hotel She arrived on
Monday, accompanied by her brother. J. E.
Wilkins. direct from her residence the Bru-
neau river, IN Oyhee county. Miss Wilkins is
one of the most noted women of the West A
Californian, and educated at San Jose, she early
engaged in the stock business and has amassed
large fortune. An Examiner represen tative
sent up his card to her last evening and
promptly asked to come up. Miss Wilkins is
somewhat tall, with high forehead regular
features aud rather light hair, being something
Of a blonde. Her eyes dark and her manner
very charming. Altogether. she i'm presses one
as a very intelligent young lady of abo ut TWEEN
ty-three.
II have been referred to as the cattle queen"
said she. "but this is incorrect The Wilkins
company, of Idaho, own both horses and cattle,
and that is how the mistake originated, but my
, own specially is horses. / between
Morgans. Normans. Hambletonians and SO on.
/ have no native Oregon or Spanish horses at
all. Besides these now have, if you will ex-
cuse my speaking in the FIRST person. singular. 1
have sold a great many hundreds: I could not
begin to tell how many. Do L like living away
in Idahol 0, SO much! I am perfectly fasci-
mated with it l go out to roundup in the
spring and fall and enjoy myself so much.
1t is a fascinating business and grows upon you.
1t was really romantic the way got my start.
The way of it was this: Over twenty
and were returning to San Francisco when our
friends gathered round 70 give mementoes OF
various SORES When they got to me they said
We'll. now, she's only little thing'-I was but
two years old then. Wen just give her some
money to be invested for her Two of them
gave me $50 gold piece each. Shortly after
returning here my father concluded to 60 to
Idaho and engage in the stock business. He
went so Oregon and bought a lot of horses
When he went to pay over the money he be-
thought him of my $40. and seeing fine
little FLY vet left offered the $40 for her. The
owner valued her $50. but seeing my father
was taking the others, he finally concluded to
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Live Stock.

KANSAS CITY: Dec, Fl 241The Iays Stock Indi-
725. Shipping steers weak and 501Oc lower;
and butchers stuff steady Good to choice corn-fed
stoeEers feeling sseers
COWS, 81. 5O03.25.
Hoss-Receipts, 6, 274 Market irregular and 10
02O lower. Good to choice, S5 25 05. 35; common
to medium, S4.7505.1o; skips and pigs, $1,000
Sheep-Receipts. $50; shipments, 14o. Market
steady Good to choice. $3.50 a. 40; common to
medium, $2OO03.25.
PORTS Cattle-Receipts. 1000; shipments. 5000.
Market slow and 10O15c lower; shipping steers;
s snIts and mixed Texas cattle Si'o0
ket slow and Toe lower; mixed, $49505.45; light,
81. S005 20: skips, So 04.65.
1000 Market strong; natives, common to good
So. 20 rs; Western. $4,000; Texans $25O03.50;
ST. LOUIS Dec. 24.-Cattle-Receipts 100;
shipments. none. Market steady at unchanged fig
a shade easier Choice heavy and butchers selec.
tions. So. 5o05.65 Workers. and packing medium
good S4.75 1920.
sheep-Recepts, rome; shipments; none Market
steady. Fair to choice So. 10 20.
BUFFALO. Dec 24.-Cattle-Receipts, 1900.
Shesp~Receipts, A, 200 head; good to choice firm
at S4 2504.75; Canadian lambs scarce and firm
Hogs-Recepts. II 900. Market weak: light pigs
eeted medium weghts % 1922 9o: 60 90 extra $40
0425. Market closed quiet.
EAST LIBERTY. Pa, Dec. 24-Cattle-Receipts.
1885, shipments. 247. Nothing doing; all through
HossmReeepts. BOO ' Shipments. 1900. Marsst
slow; Philadelphias, So. 1910; mixed. $500
555: Workers., $5.4O05 as common to fair, So. IS
$3.50. Fifteen of hogs shipped to New York
to-day.
NEW YORK Dec. 24.-Beeves-Receipts, 400;
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Oil.

OIL CITY. Pa. Dec. 2I.-National Transit
tifcates opened at S2lsc: highest, 81 1oc; lowest
&c; closed s44c; sales, /, Ill 900 brls; clear
ances 2, OS6, 900 brIs.
PITTSBURG, Pa. Dec 24.-Petroleum active.
strong and higher National Transit certificates opened
S24c; closed at S414c; highest, "a 1oc; lowest.
S2I4c.
CLEVELAND. Dec 24.-Petroleum firm; stand
ard white. HOO, 714c.
WILMINGTON. Dec. 24.-Turpentine steady at
34lac.
SAVANNAH, Ga. Dec. 24.-Turpentine firm at
35l4c.
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YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
The following items of news appeared IN our
Second Edition of Sunday.l


CHICAGO, Dec. 24--The Times to- will ssyS
The first steps taken yesterday in the transfer
of the estate of the late Wilbur E Storey including
tho Times TO the people who have recently purchased
It. Mr.. James j. West, of the purchasers,
appointed receiver part of the plan for the ults
m ate transfer to the Chicago Times Company, Mrs.
Eureka G. Storey. the hand, and the heirs+at
law on the other have conveyed all their interests to
Mr. west The object of making him receiver tenn
poraril was to protect the creditors of the
unaer the late receiver till the necessary steps could
and the debts adjusted the new owners viii assume
EDITORIAL control of the paper. Clinton j. Snowden.
VINO IS associated with Mr.. West stated this evening
force or the paper. except that Mr.. G. z. Dennett.
the night editor. and Mr.. Frank McCethen, OF
the writers, had at occe quilted their places Mr.. T.
Cowles who preceded Mr.. bennett as night editor,
had taken up the duties let tall BY Mr. bennett
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Innocent Bobby.


n >
Mother Ito Bobby)-rm shocked to hear that
Willie Waffies whipped the poor cat, Bobby.
My little boy wouldn't do such a thing.
Bobby with conscious moral superiority
No, indeed, ma.
Mother-Why didn't you stop him, Bobby
Bobby-I couldn't ma; was holding the cat.
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Instruments fled for record in the recorders Office
of Marion county Indiana, for the twenty-four hours
ending at 3 p NJ Dec. "a. 1897. furnished by
Elliott Butler, abstracters of titles Room %. tna
Building
Joseph FL. Clark to Henry Barrett lots
i3l and $50. in Joseph II. Clarks ad-
dition to Haughville .---.... $4,000
Horace r Allen to Chas. A. Owens, lots
l. 2, 3 and and 81. 49, SO and 40,
all il block in North IndianapoIs.-... 10000
Sinker, Davis & Co. to Rasmus Rasmus-
sen, lots 4 and 5, in block 2 in North
Indianapolis. $4,000
Henry w. Muir Adam Storch north
half of lot 27. in Warman's heirs
Haughve subdivision INSTRUMENTATION $500
Robt H. Cover to Orlean NJ. Goodnough,
lot 80 in Hubbard ct al. southeast ad-
dition to Indianapolis. 10000
Georgiana Smith to Sarah L. Hall. lot 25,
i56. Indianapolis 65o.oo
Harry j. Millgan trustee, Thomas j.
addition addition to Indianapolis ...c . $4,000
Sarah Louthain to Samuel II. Hice lot
119, in Fletchers Woodlawn addition
to Indianapolis ....-----.-..--.... 10000
Henry p. Todd to Louis III. Todd, part of
the west half of the northeast quarter,
section 49, township 16 north, of range
3 east Z,foUOO
Richard b. Herrfck TO James H. Alvey,
lots 10, l., II and 49, in Parker IS
Hanways subdivision of Fletchers
fourth Brookside addition to Indian
apoiis 4ooOO
conveyances, TO- consideration $40 10000
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Injured in n Runaway.

FIT. WAYNE Dec. GA t-vohorse team attached
to delivery wagon ran away to-day, dashng down
Ca houn street, which thronged. The team coll
lided with buggy containing D. ID. Lpes. aged
gentleman. who was overturned with his buggy and
dragged considerable distance receiving very.
injuries. The team plunged on, running a
farmer named Jacob Feger. who badly in
jured, it is thought, that he cannot recover. The
wagon totally wrecked before the team was
caught
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str,I,e Drawing to a Close.

ROCHESTER. N. Y, Dec. 24.-It is reported that
the knights of Labor have recently passed resolu-
luton permitting the of the shoe-shops that
have been a strike here for nearly months to
negotiate directly with the proprietors of the shops
where they were employed As the manufacturers
refused to deal with committees representing the
knights. and as they have signifed their willingness
to take them back individuals, the strike Vail
doubtless end shortly.
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INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
INDIANAPOLI,

indianapolis, Dec. 24.
Business to-day took on q holiday appearance. But
little was doing except in the retail stores There
session of the Board OF Trade consequently
without our usual grain quotations.
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Business of the Clearing Houses.

BOSTON, Dec. 25.-The following table, COM
piled from dispatches to the Post from the
managers of the leading clearing houses in the
United States. shows the gross exchanges for
the week ending Dec "a, 1887. together with
the rates, per cent of increase and decrease. as
compared with the amounts for the correspond
ing week IN 1856:
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CITY MEXICO. Dec. "a general assembly OF
clergynen representing all Protestant missions in
Mexico will take place in this city Jan. 81. This
is the first time that such union of the various
Protestant sects operating in missionary work here
has been possible but then Methodist. Baptist Qua
ker and Episcopalan missions will be present. and
addresses will be delivered by bishops from
rious sections of the United States. The Rev. John
Butler, the head of the Methodist mission here has
been actively engaged in bringing about this union OF
missionary workers